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you remained remember jon stewart said this attack on it happened. it's not a dream, but the aftermath, the recovery is a dream realized and that's martin luther king's dream. whatever barriers we put up our god. even if this is voluntary, any fool can blow something up, but to see these guys come in these firefighters, policemen and people all over the country, literally with buckets rebuilding, that's extort barry and that's why we party one. now 11 years later, we can look at our nation and say it's as divided as it's been in recent memory and maybe we have to concede that some of that unity we experience was, as jon stewart said, just temporary. and that sometimes makes it even more discouraging to watch the spectacle that are national, political system often becomes. but my chapter in "in the shadow of greatness" explains why haven't lost hope. that's because i spent the years surrounding nine elevenths run by people who continue to live that dream and set their differences aside and put themselves in harms way and unfailingly do with their coun
you remained remember jon stewart said this attack on it happened. it's not a dream, but the aftermath, the recovery is a dream realized and that's martin luther king's dream. whatever barriers we put up our god. even if this is voluntary, any fool can blow something up, but to see these guys come in these firefighters, policemen and people all over the country, literally with buckets rebuilding, that's extort barry and that's why we party one. now 11 years later, we can look at our nation and...
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jon, back in 2008 the president had pledged he would do what we do with her own family budgets, make sure money is spent wisely. i will go through the entire federal budget he said page by page, line by line, and eliminate programs that don't work and are not needed. what programs have met that criteria and the department of education? what has the president, would have secretary duncan zero doubt because it's ineffective or not a good use of funds? >> the president and the administration have proposed 30-40 programs for elimination because of a lack of evidence on impact. and some of those have been successful, some of those haven't. this is an example worsens when the full-time members, i should note some of those are but some of those are small programs that were critically or three years ago i kept getting funded because of history. i don't even know the names of all those but those are the kind of programs where they don't have evidence of success that should be eliminated. not a all of those have been eliminate by some have. he has also established the principle that actually f
jon, back in 2008 the president had pledged he would do what we do with her own family budgets, make sure money is spent wisely. i will go through the entire federal budget he said page by page, line by line, and eliminate programs that don't work and are not needed. what programs have met that criteria and the department of education? what has the president, would have secretary duncan zero doubt because it's ineffective or not a good use of funds? >> the president and the administration...
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i first realized this of all places while watching "the daily show," and jon stewart said this attack, it happened. it's not a dream but the aftermath of is, the recovery is a dream realize, and that's martin luther king's dream whatever barriers we put up, to see these guys, firefighter, and policemen from all over the country, rebuilding with buckets. that's extraordinary, and that's why we've already won. 11 years later we can look at our nation and say, well, it's as divided as it's been in recent memory, and maybe he haven't conceived some of the unity we experienced was, as jon stewart said, was just temporary, and that sometimes makes it even more discouraging to watch the spectacle that our national political systems often become. but my chapter of "in the shadow of greatness" explains why i haven't lost hope. that's because i've spent the years since 9/11 surrounded by a group of people who continue to live that dream. and who continue to set their differences aside and put themselves in harm's way, and unfailingly do what thunder country asked of them. and these same people
i first realized this of all places while watching "the daily show," and jon stewart said this attack, it happened. it's not a dream but the aftermath of is, the recovery is a dream realize, and that's martin luther king's dream whatever barriers we put up, to see these guys, firefighter, and policemen from all over the country, rebuilding with buckets. that's extraordinary, and that's why we've already won. 11 years later we can look at our nation and say, well, it's as divided as...
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jon. in the three nonprofits and districts were permitted to compete for profits couldn't be primary participants. gainful employment, the administration has aggressively sought to regulate the for-profit providers. the president speaking to the young veterans of the for-profit colleges said they don't care about you. so i'm curious, how does the president and how does secretary duncan -- what are their views on the role of the for-profit when it comes to american education, are they a necessary evil or what is the best description? >> there are a lot of ways they're playing a role in education. a whole curriculum in the public industry. for example, the for-profit that is going to benefit from changing a lot to provide much better materials and programs to support kids to reach a high quality of standard. i don't think you heard. and hopefully they will in the coming few years. i think that on something like the gainful employment on my understanding, and i am pretty sure but i've not bee
jon. in the three nonprofits and districts were permitted to compete for profits couldn't be primary participants. gainful employment, the administration has aggressively sought to regulate the for-profit providers. the president speaking to the young veterans of the for-profit colleges said they don't care about you. so i'm curious, how does the president and how does secretary duncan -- what are their views on the role of the for-profit when it comes to american education, are they a...
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arizona, former surgeon general richard carmona is facing congressman jeff flake to succeed senator jon kyl. the former surgeon general actually has, i think, pretty good opportunities to be successful on november 6th. it's a race that's being watched nationally and may increase the number of latinos in the united states senate. in texas former solicitor general ted cruz has excellent opportunities to be elected on november 6th, becoming the first hispanic to represent hispanics in the united states senate from texas. in the united states house, there are currently 24 latinos serving the u.s. house of representatives. two are not running for re-election, charlie gonzales, the current chairman of the hispanic caucus, is retiring from congress, and silvestre reyes lost his primary race. of the 22 latinos who are running either all of them are running for re-election and have excellent prospects of being reelected, or are being challenged by other candidates who also are hispanic. which leads us to our projections that at least five new faces, latino faces, will join the u.s. congress on n
arizona, former surgeon general richard carmona is facing congressman jeff flake to succeed senator jon kyl. the former surgeon general actually has, i think, pretty good opportunities to be successful on november 6th. it's a race that's being watched nationally and may increase the number of latinos in the united states senate. in texas former solicitor general ted cruz has excellent opportunities to be elected on november 6th, becoming the first hispanic to represent hispanics in the united...
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jon alterman said this morning that we were the all-star team of north africa experts, right? and i appreciate that, i really, really do. it's kind of like being an all-star ping pong player. there's just not that many of us. i also, i appreciate the comments, the 18th of north african experts in that same sort of reference. i think that doctor has to be mr. t. >> so i'm going to do something i think a little unusual for a conference, and what i'd like to do is put out a couple of scenarios or in al simpson as for where north africa might be hitting. i don't intend the sinners to be exhaustive but i don't intended to be definitive. instead i hope they are speculative and assert help their are provocative and they can serve as fuel for discussion. before we do that though, it's important established a base case. where do we think these countries in north africa are. and then from there we can project down were so we think they might be going. what are their trajectory. lastly i would like to propose some alternate trajectory but if we're the most likely sinners, the reasonable
jon alterman said this morning that we were the all-star team of north africa experts, right? and i appreciate that, i really, really do. it's kind of like being an all-star ping pong player. there's just not that many of us. i also, i appreciate the comments, the 18th of north african experts in that same sort of reference. i think that doctor has to be mr. t. >> so i'm going to do something i think a little unusual for a conference, and what i'd like to do is put out a couple of...
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thank you for the kind invitation from jon and haim. haim was very tough. he gave me a huge list of questions to address before coming here, particularly on algeria. so i will divide my presentation into. one is prepared and the other would be sort of i will try to bring it because of the questions that came from the audience earlier today particularly from the young diplomats from the diplomats who asked about what's going on with the maghreb union and the region in general, and also a little bit about what's going on, you know, in the periphery of the maghreb because from my perspective we cannot now distinguish the two regions and the maghreb in terms of security issues. but the first 1i would like to address is the one about algeria. i wouldn't repeat what was said this morning but it might be similar. it was very interesting that in january, 2011, if you watch the media and i remember he contacted me and most people that work on the region and said what is trying to happen in algeria? when is it going to happen in algeria? so the question that we raise
thank you for the kind invitation from jon and haim. haim was very tough. he gave me a huge list of questions to address before coming here, particularly on algeria. so i will divide my presentation into. one is prepared and the other would be sort of i will try to bring it because of the questions that came from the audience earlier today particularly from the young diplomats from the diplomats who asked about what's going on with the maghreb union and the region in general, and also a little...
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i don't envy jon allen one bit. he has a very tough job as the commander and he's a brilliant guy and he will do it as well as anybody that i know. but, again, how do you deal with the fact of pulling troops out because of this deadline? how do you deal with the taliban behavior because of this deadline? there is a difference i would reiterate between mr. obama and mr. romney which opens the door to the possibility that we are not going to pull out of 2014 if the situation doesn't warrant it. why should we stay one extra day and risk our kids' lives one more minute if we can get out? but if our commanders and general allen of the world turn around and say not yet, governor romney isn't locked into pulling out. that is a huge difference and if they continue to be bright as you say. >> this lady right here. >> i'm a political researcher. my question is for both speakers u-boats agree on the objective but the difference is how we are going to go about. that really describes the situation very well going back to thinkin
i don't envy jon allen one bit. he has a very tough job as the commander and he's a brilliant guy and he will do it as well as anybody that i know. but, again, how do you deal with the fact of pulling troops out because of this deadline? how do you deal with the taliban behavior because of this deadline? there is a difference i would reiterate between mr. obama and mr. romney which opens the door to the possibility that we are not going to pull out of 2014 if the situation doesn't warrant it....
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terms of how it plays out. >> okay, that's the benediction of the event, but i want to thank john #* jon, bill, and bart for a very invigorating discussion. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, a discussion on how corporate money is affecting the presidential and congressional races this year. speakers include former federal election commission chairman trevor potter, "time" magazine, and a member of the roosevelt institute. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. good morning. welcome to the new america foundation. i'm mark schmidt, a senior fellow at the research institute where i worked for a number of years until a few years ago. andre martinez and i pulled together ad gsh -- a good panel on what's going on with politics and money in 2012 called "beyond sticker shock" to get beyond the idea that, oh, my gosh, there's a huge amount of money in politics. when i started in the issue in 1996, i was working on the hill, and my boss wanted to do a speech about it, and we wrote about how outrageous that $1 billion would be spent in 1996, and that seems like the line from dr. evil's dema
terms of how it plays out. >> okay, that's the benediction of the event, but i want to thank john #* jon, bill, and bart for a very invigorating discussion. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, a discussion on how corporate money is affecting the presidential and congressional races this year. speakers include former federal election commission chairman trevor potter, "time" magazine, and a member of the roosevelt institute. this is 90 minutes. >> good...
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if you're on the wrong side of jon corzine is like 75, 25. [inaudible] >> not the first time. [laughter] >> so you have this come of it as you move back into the party committees to an independent expenditure in ads, which actually still is an unintended consequence and mistake that should be able to work with the candidate and the campaign. but you start squeezing the amount of money spent by the candidates in the party committees are filling up. so what is happening is rather than each candidate trying to get about 50% of what it sat on the air, each candidate is now getting 20% of what is spent on the air and the other 60%, probably even
if you're on the wrong side of jon corzine is like 75, 25. [inaudible] >> not the first time. [laughter] >> so you have this come of it as you move back into the party committees to an independent expenditure in ads, which actually still is an unintended consequence and mistake that should be able to work with the candidate and the campaign. but you start squeezing the amount of money spent by the candidates in the party committees are filling up. so what is happening is rather than...
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i think jon stewart is asking him, him, was it a script of the intelligence community was not -- the white house did not have clear-cut indication that the intelligence community during or after the attack, or was it a screwup here late that security was not adequate enough to protect the life of the american ambassador. >> secretary clinton was traveling there and you had this story from the heat oppressed. secretary clinton said i'm responsible for complex security. talk us through the command. >> the secretary was absolutely correct to take responsibility. the secretary is the president said during the debate, so we're going to have a buck stops here moment. that moment will be with the president. there's a lot of talk about how clinton was falling on her sword, trying to make herself look more presidential by doing this. frankly when you're the secretary of state in him and asks you about a failure, obviously a failure to protect american diplomats abroad. you have to take responsibility. what else can you say? no, it wasn't my fault. it's the responsibility of the secretary of s
i think jon stewart is asking him, him, was it a script of the intelligence community was not -- the white house did not have clear-cut indication that the intelligence community during or after the attack, or was it a screwup here late that security was not adequate enough to protect the life of the american ambassador. >> secretary clinton was traveling there and you had this story from the heat oppressed. secretary clinton said i'm responsible for complex security. talk us through the...
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. >> in respect to defense spending, economic effective defense spending, my name's jon shermer, u.s. army, obviously. the question is, well, there's three components to defense spending. you know, you've got your force structure, you've got your readynd, and you've got your modernization. and what are the effects of defense spend anything each of those on the economy? you know, et seems to me to look at it from the aggregate is interesting, but to also drill down into, you know, a dollar that goes into force structure, what does that buy us from an economic perspective, a dollar that goes into modernization, what does that buy us, and a dollar that goes into readiness, what does that buy us? >> you'd have to have a market in which those things are priced, and we don't have that. we just can ask the question much more qualitatively what are the contributions of those functions to, quote, national security, unquote, and then try to put a value on that, or at least an effectiveness measure. it's like trying to measure the military effectiveness of a division. how do we do that? well, we
. >> in respect to defense spending, economic effective defense spending, my name's jon shermer, u.s. army, obviously. the question is, well, there's three components to defense spending. you know, you've got your force structure, you've got your readynd, and you've got your modernization. and what are the effects of defense spend anything each of those on the economy? you know, et seems to me to look at it from the aggregate is interesting, but to also drill down into, you know, a dollar...